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Q. Why are so many railway stations named "[something] Road"?
The "Road" after the station indicates that it's the nearest railhead for that particular town. The road to that town originates at this station:you still need to travel a while by road to get to that town. There are a number of examples: Kodaikanal Road, Khurda Road, Mantralayam Road, Jajhpur Kheonjar Road, Nasik Road, etc. Jajpur Keonjhar Road is an interestingly named station as the station serves as the railway access point for two towns, Jajpur which is 32km south-east of...
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the station and Keonjhar which is 127km north-west of the station.
At some such "Road" stations, e.g., Kodaikanal Road, there exists a Railway Out Agency, which is an agency which can issue combined road-rail tickets to passengers, and which operates the road portion of the journey from the station to the town. The bus connections are provided to coincide with train arrivals. Out agencies used to be listed in the Indian Bradshaw before it ceased publication in its detailed form.
Q. What other suffixes such as 'Road' are used for station names in India?
See the list of common suffixes in Indian place names (which is a general, not railway-specific list). Many suffixes are self-explanatory. For instance, many cities have a Cantonment station which used to be where the British established military cantonments (and where significant military establishments may still exist. In addition to the Indian place name suffixes, English suffixes such as 'Park', 'Fort', 'Beach', are quite common, as are suffixes like 'South', 'East', etc. If one goes through the list of IR station names, many unusual and odd names come to light. On the Neral-Matheran line, a station is named 'Water Pipe', solely because it is near the water supply pipes that run close by. The same line has a halt 'Aman Lodge', named after the hotel of the same name run by the state tourism bureau. Several other such examples can be found elsewhere.